2006 Utah Code - 20A-3-306 — Voting ballot -- Returning ballot.

     20A-3-306.   Voting ballot -- Returning ballot.
     (1) (a) To vote a mail-in absentee ballot, the absentee voter shall:
     (i) complete and sign the affidavit on the envelope;
     (ii) mark his votes on the absentee ballot;
     (iii) place the voted absentee ballot in the envelope;
     (iv) securely seal the envelope; and
     (v) attach postage and deposit the envelope in the mail or deliver it in person to the election officer from whom the ballot was obtained.
     (b) To vote an absentee ballot in the office of the election officer, the absent voter shall:
     (i) complete and sign the affidavit on the envelope;
     (ii) mark his votes on the absent-voter ballot;
     (iii) place the voted absent-voter ballot in the envelope;
     (iv) securely seal the envelope; and
     (v) give the ballot and envelope to the election officer.
     (2) An absentee ballot is not valid unless it is:
     (a) received at the office of the appropriate election officer before the closing of polls on election day; or
     (b) clearly postmarked before election day and received in the office of the election officer before noon on the day of the official canvass following the election.

Amended by Chapter 24, 1997 General Session